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         <h2 style="margin-right: 1.5em;">Description of MS S: 
           <span style="font-style: italic;">Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190</span>
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	   <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">General description</h3>
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	     Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 190 is a collection of laws and includes
	     three handbooks of penance--the 
	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scriftboc</span>, the 
	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Penitential</span>, and the 
	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Theodore</span>--and the 
	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Introduction</span>. The text of the 
	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">CTH</span> is very short and should be thought of as a supplement to rather 
	     than a distinct version of the text found in MSS BY.  MS S is assumed to be the "canon
	     on leden 7 sciftboc on englisc" which Bishop Leofric gave to Exeter (Leofric died
	     1072). Section A contains "Notes and Glosses," Section B, "Ecclesiastical institutes, etc."
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	     The texts in the database all occur in section B of the MS.  Ker describes this
	     section as follows:  "A miscellany of ecclesiastical law and custom referred to by
	     Thorpe, Fehr, and others, as O and by Napier as W" (p. 70). (For obvious reasons, "O" could not be used in this 
	     edition without addition confusion to the numerical tags; the siglum adopted here instead is "S."). Mary Bateson analyzed the MS
	     in "A Worcester Cathedral Book of Ecclesiastical Collections," 
	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">English Historical Review</span>
	     10 (1895), 715. On the contents of the manuscript, see also Patrick Wormald's detailed
	     discussion in 
	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Making of English Law</span>, pp.  210-11, 220-24, 391-92.
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	     The B section of the MS is dated by Ker "s. xi<sup>med</sup>, xi<sup>2</sup>" (p. 70). This is an Exeter manuscript. Catalogue numbers: Ker #45B; Gneuss #59. </p>
	     <p>With permission of the Parker Library, Cambridge University, two pages of this manuscript are reproduced below: <a href="mshd190.html#366">p. 366</a> and <a href="mshd190.html#404">p. 404</a>. <a href="msch190.html">Table 1</a> shows the penitential content of the manuscript by folio.
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	   <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Writing surface</h3>
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	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dimensions:</span> c. 288 x 185 mm; written space 230-220 x 132  mm. (Ker p. 73). The average number of
	     lines per page is 28 long lines (27 on pp. 303-18, 25 on pp. 351-64).
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	   <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Hands</h3>
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	     In Part B, which contains the penitential content listed above, articles 1-12 (pp. 320-418) are, according to Ker, "s. xi<sup>med</sup>" (p. 73). Ker suggests that part
	     A was added to at Exeter in s. xi and that articles 17-21 (pp. 295-359) were written there. 
	     Punctuation: the figure .- is frequent. Initials of part B are red, blue, and green.
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	   <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Vernacular penitential content </h3>
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	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scriftboc</span>
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	     Capitula 366-367
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	     Canons 371-384
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	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Old English Penitential</span>
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	     387-413
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	     Book I 387
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	     Book II 390
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	     Book III 399
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	     Book IV 404
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	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Old English Introduction</span>
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	     Introduction, Parts 1, 2, 3a, 4a 368-371
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	     Introduction, Part 3b  384-386
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	     Introduction, Part 4b 413-414
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	     Introduction 414-416   
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	     <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canons of Theodore</span> 
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	     (a unique collection of chapters, some not found elsewhere) 416-418
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	   <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Non-penitential content </h3>
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	     Part B contains two letters of &AElig;lfric to Wulfstan ("Hic incipit prima epistola. anglice exposita," 
	     which begins "Us bisceopum gedafena&eth; &thorn;&aelig;t we &thorn;a boclican lare," ed. Fehr (1914, p. 69); and 
	     "Sequitur secunda epistola quando diuidus crismam," which begins, "Eala ge m&aelig;ssepreostas," ed. Fehr (1914, p. 146). 
	     Two texts follow, "De officio missae in uigilia pascae" and "De officio missae in uigilia pentecosten" (also ed. Fehr
	     [1914, p. 228, p. 232]). See Ker, p. 71, for further details.
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	   <h3 style="font-size: 20pt; color: #626C9B; font-weight: bold; position: relative; top: -1em; letter-spacing: .10em; width: 100%; border-bottom: double 3px #626C9B; ">Index by folio and facsimiles</h3>
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	     This <a href="msch190.html">table</a> contains a list of chapters by folio.
	   </p> <p>  Here are two facsimile pages:<br/>
<a name="366">P. 366</a> is the beginning of the Scriftboc: <dir>
HER ONGINNA&ETH; &ETH;ISSE BOCE CAPITULAS<br/>&ETH;E WE HATA&ETH; SCRIFTBOC.<br/>&ETH;AS CAPITULAS ECGBYRHT ARCEBISCEOP <br/>on 
eoforwic awende of ledene on englisc &thorn;&aelig;t &thorn;a ungel&aelig;redan<br/>hit mihton &thorn;e e&eth; understandan<br/>
Here begin the chapters <br/>of this book that we call scriftboc.<br/>Egbert, archbishop of York, 
translated these chapters<br/>from Latin into English so that the unlearned<br/>might more easily understand them.
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The chapter headings follow.</p><p>
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On <a name="404">p. 404</a>, at the large red h, the fourth book of the Penitential begins. 
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<font color="red">h</font>yt is &thorn;eah to witanne hwi &thorn;eos feor&thorn;e boc sig uncapitulod <br/>
nu &thorn;a &aelig;rran bec synt gecapitulod. &thorn;&aelig;t is for&thorn;on &thorn;e &thorn;eos<br/>
feor&thorn;e boc ys genumen of &thorn;am &thorn;rim � gif hit man ra&thorn;e<br/>
findan ne m&aelig;g on &thorn;am &thorn;rim hit man fint on �&aelg;re feor&eth;an<br/>
&aelig;g&eth;er ge be maran &thorn;ingon ge be l&aelig;sson openlicor & hr&aelig;d<br/>
licor
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Here it is nevertheless to be known why this fourth book is without chapter headings whereas the other chapters have them. That is because the fourth book is is adapted from the three books; what one cannot readily find in those three books one may find in this fourth book, concerning both greater things and lessor, more plainly and more
conveniently.
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